Have you ever heard of the Chemical Safety Board (CSB)? Chances are you haven't unless you work in certain industries. How important can it be then? Extremely, as it turns out. It's among many similar government agencies being quietly destroyed by the Trump administration to the delight of Republicans.
In the middle of a pandemic, the Trump Adm has proposed gutting the military healthcare system, all while protecting profits for wealthy defense contractors. This would hurt active duty troops, military retirees, & their families across the country.
Pentagon officials working on Defense Secretary Mark Esper's cost-cutting review of the department have proposed slashing military health care by $2.2 billion, a reduction that some defense officials say could effectively gut the Pentagon’s health care system during a nationwide pandemic.
Trump plays favorites with governors that are loyal to him by rewarding them with our taxpayer dollars. The rot of corruption is endless.
Trump agreed to continue paying for the full cost of National Guard troops deployed to help with the coronavirus response in just two states -- Texas and Florida -- after their Republican governors appealed directly to him.
Nice job draining the swamp Trump. In fact, lobbying and corruption are off the charts and growing exponentially.
Chris Christie dreamed of becoming president. Now, he’s settling for a different role in Washington: lobbyist.
Christie registered to lobby for the first time only last month, in the middle of a lobbying boom fueled by the federal government’s multitrillion-dollar response to the pandemic.... leaning on his ties to the administration....
Approximately 40,000 meat plant workers have tested positive for Covid-19. At least 168 have died. Rather than investing in measures to protect workers in the future, the companies have donated to Republican legislators and pushed for special immunity from legal liability. This is corruption. This is the swamp.
Even before the vaccine is here, the profiteering on Wall Street is flowing.
The race is on to develop a coronavirus vaccine, and some companies and investors are betting that the winners stand to earn vast profits from selling hundreds of millions — or even billions — of doses to a desperate public.
Across the pharmaceutical and medical industries, senior executives and board members are capitalizing on that dynamic.
If you think for one minute that Trump or Republicans gives one damn about working class people, read below and then vote.
On April 28th, forty-eight hours after Tyson Foods, the world’s second-largest meat company, ran a full-page ad in several newspapers warning that “the food supply chain is breaking,” Trump issued an executive order defining slaughterhouse workers as essential. The executive order commanded meat-processing facilities to “continue operations uninterrupted to the extent possible.”
Shifting pandemic data collection from an expert government agency to a White House has politicized science, undermines experts, and still maintains Trump's inauguration had the largest ever crowd is a terrible, horrible, no good very bad idea.
The Trump administration has ordered hospitals to bypass the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and send all Covid-19 patient information to a central database in Washington beginning on Wednesday [7/15/20].
BE SMART ABOUT is an ongoing series at Smart Dissent but truthfully we haven't added to it in likely more than a year. We continue to report on the horrific people populating the Trump Swamp but without doing an official entry to the series. We've got one to add today and Trump's only got a few months months to add swamp creatures for us to research fortunately.
The arrival of a new political appointee is spawning confusion and concern at the U.S. Agency for International Development....
The Trump administration has gone from willful ignorance, to indifference, to intentionally undermining testing, containment and treatment.
The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, or BARDA, a federal health agency, abruptly notified companies and researchers that it was halting funding for treatments for this severe form of Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus.